Quotes About Commitment

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Now let me burn out for God.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.